Mistress is the feminine form of the English word "master" (''master'' + ''-ess'') and may refer to:
Romance and relationships
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Mistress (lover)
A mistress is a woman who is in a relatively long-term sexual and romantic relationship with a man who is married to a different woman.
Description
A mistress is in a long-term relationship with her attached mister, and is often referred to ...
, a term for a woman who is in a sexual and romantic relationship with a man who is married to a different woman
Title or form of address
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Mistress (form of address)
Mistress is an old form of address for a woman. It implies "lady of the house", especially a woman who is head of a household with domestic workers.
An example is Mistress Quickly in Shakespeare's ''The Merry Wives of Windsor''. The title did not ...
, an old-fashioned term for the lady of the house
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Ms., original abbreviation
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Mistress (college)
A master (more generically called a head of house or head of college) is the head or senior member of a college within a collegiate university, principally in the United Kingdom.
The actual title of the head of a college varies widely between i ...
, a female head of a college
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Mistress of the Robes, the senior lady of the British Royal Household
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schoolmaster, also called a schoolmistress or "schoolmarm"
In ancient religions
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Isis, Egyptian goddess known as the mistress of the house of life
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Hathor, Egyptian goddess known as the mistress of the west
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Nepthys, Egyptian goddess of the underworld, known as the mistress of the temple
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Despoina, a Greek title for the mistress of the house, applied to various women and goddesses
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Potnia theron, or mistress of the animals, a title applied by Homer to the Greek goddess Artemis
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Potnia ("Mistress"), a title applied to various Greek goddesses
* Mistress of the
labyrinth, in the palace of Knossos in Crete
In arts and entertainment
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Mistress (band)
Mistress were a British extreme metal band from Birmingham, England. The members of this five-piece band adopted pseudonyms as stage-names including: Drunken and Misery on guitars, Dirty Von Arse on bass, Dave Cunt on vocals and Migg on drums. ...
, a sludge metal/grindcore band from Birmingham, England
* ''Mistress'', a split-up death metal band from Germany, fronted by
Angela Gossow
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''Mistress'' (1992 film)
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''Mistress'' (1987 film) starring Victoria Principal
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''Mistresses'' (British TV series)
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''Mistresses'' (American TV series), American adaptation of the UK series
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''Mistress'' (TV series), South Korean adaptation of the UK series
* "Mistress", a song by Disturbed from ''
Believe
Believe may refer to:
*Belief, a psychological state in which an individual holds a proposition or premise to be true, with or without proof for such proposition
*Faith, a belief in something which has not been proven
Arts, entertainment, and me ...
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* "Mistress", a song by Rebecca Ferguson from ''
Superwoman''
* "Mistress", a song by Suede from ''
The Blue Hour''
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''Mistress'' (novel), a 2013 novel by James Patterson
Other uses
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Dominatrix, in BDSM
See also
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The Mistress (disambiguation) The Mistress can refer to:
Film and television
* ''The Mistress'' (TV series), a British sitcom
* ''The Mistress'' (1927 film), a silent German film
* ''The Mistress'' (1962 film), a 1962 Swedish film
* ''The Mistress'' (2012 film), a 2012 F ...
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